Spring has arrived and that means – hurrah! – our first visitors have arrived. We welcomed two very old (as in long-standing!) friends last week. We’ve had many experiences with them – they were our neighbours in West Didsbury, we went to their wedding in Greece and have shared many parties and late, late nights […]
We are very excited that visits out here are being planned already for 2018 by family and friends. If you’d like to come out to Istria, here’s where we are currently: 18th – 22nd April – booked 22nd – 29th May – booked 29th May – 5th June TBC 30th June – 4th July – […]
Previous years have seen us getting away from West Didsbury and largely exploring Italy, Spain and Greece, with some nice city breaks in between. This year – summer 2017 – has seen us doing a very different kind of a holiday. Firstly, it was a very strange feeling booking outward flights TO Manchester from Pula […]
One of the the things that excites us massively about now living in northern Croatia, is our proximity to so far undiscovered islands, very close to home. Greece has alway been our favoured destination of island exploration and we’ve never really given the Croatian islands a second thought. Until now… We’ve extensively explored the Istrian […]
We’ve got our first guests staying with us at the moment, friends from West Didsbury. It’s been brilliant to have people we know here and to be able to communicate, once again, without having to speak in Esperanto. In fact, being able to speak without thinking. Without having to compute in your head what might […]
It’s no secret that we adore Bergamo, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. Easily accessible – the international airport is no more than 5km from the beautiful walled upper town – we try to escape here as often as we can. And in the coming weeks/months, we’ll be doing it even more so as […]
So, here’s a thing. This post was *supposed* to be about the most quirky, amazing “hotel” we spotted on the road, high up in the hills, from Frigiliana to Torrox. But then we started to plan our route back home later in the week, and all of a sudden, the topic of the blog changed. […]
DuoMo Hotel, Via g. Bruno 28, 47921 Rimini, Italy This hotel was another amazing find. We booked one night online, trusting our gut instinct and wow! Upon arrival we immediately booked a second night as we knew this was going to be something very special. “What would please Me Most in a hotel is not […]
Having heard lots of people rave about this north eastern Sardinian coastline, we thought that a slight detour was definitely in order. We’d been staying at an agriturismo in the Saltara region and were heading to a second, a little further south (but still deep in northern hills) & the coastline to the east was […]
For anyone who’s not been to Marrakech, you need to know that everything you’ve probably ever heard is true. It is hot (even in early Janaury when we were there). It’s dusty and dirty. It’s a city of vibrant colours, aromatic aromas, constant hustle and bustle. There’s incredible wealth and the most appalling poverty. In […]
On our travels in Italy last year, we were so lucky to find some real off-the-beaten-track places. We’d hired a car and had no real plan, apart from having a couple of weeks to get from Rome to Ortigia in Sicily on the first part of the trip. So, with trusty road map – I […]
…and a hotel situated in the south west corner of the island. Hotel le Dune, in Piscinas. As the “Hip Hotels Italy” says, “Officially, Sardinia is a part of Italy; culturally, it’s another world…” And, this is what Hotel le Dune seems to be. Part of another world. Located in an area that was once […]